“Not one just to play Bach’s masterpieces, Tempesta in its Brandenburg series contextualizes the music within like-minded works from Bach’s time—a great practice with any repertoire. Even minor figures show how differently creative minds reflected.
“Performances were imposing and forthright, eschewing the polite tidiness of many baroque groups. Tempesta maintained a bit of unruliness that was more than an attractive counterweight to the music’s innate formality. The horns came through.
“The ensemble Tempesta di Mare from Philadelphia/USA demonstrated how wonderful such dusted-off scores can sound to a virtually sold-out audience in the Muthaus at Burg Hardegsen. From the onset the crisp-playing musicians whisked away any.
“Friday night heard the East Coast premiere of the complete Italian-language version of George Frideric Handel’s cantata, Aci, Galatea & Polifemo. Tempesta di Mare, with an 18-member period instrument orchestra and three vocal soloists, glittered with.
“Amid the graciousness-from-centuries-past environs of the Frick Collection on the Upper East Side, Philadelphia baroque music group Tempesta di Mare was having its New York debut Sunday in a prestigious, mainstream concert series, and playing.
“The [Handel] B minor trio sonata (Opus 2, No. 1) has a melancholy beauty that is immediately memorable, but more importantly, the fabric of the music—its counterpoint, its melodies, its harmonic structure—breathes with an irresistible inner life..
“What chance does a composer like Johann Friedrich Fasch have in a world like ours? It turns out that he has a pretty good one. What makes Fasch’s music most enjoyable is his willingness to.
“This seriously addictive disc should make New Yorkers envy Philadelphia for its sparkling early-music orchestra, Tempesta di Mare. Here, the group’s five expert core players pay handsome tribute to Handel. Soprano Julianne Baird joins them.
“The ensemble Tempesta di Mare performed an all Vivaldi concert last Saturday evening, presented by Early Music Now. The five-member ensemble of two violins, recorder, cello and lute plays with wonderfully tight ensemble, divining one.
“Sunday’s concert at the National Gallery of Art was a survey of 16th- and 17th-century Italian music, allowing Drew Minter and the accomplished musicians of Tempesta di Mare to showcase the style, ornamentation and improvisation.